by Scott Dreyer | Feb 20, 2017 | Core-Concepts
What are idioms? At DreyerCoaching.com, we do not give our students long lists of vocabulary words and grammar points to memorize; there are more than enough “cram schools” doing that already. Instead, we want to teach “real English,”...
by Scott Dreyer | Feb 10, 2017 | Core-Concepts
English is a crazy language! (This phrase comes from the hilarious writing of linguist Richard Lederer, who gives some great examples of this nutty language. You can read his essay here.) ******************** Just now in his 1 on 1 English class a student asked me...
by Scott Dreyer | Oct 7, 2016 | Core-Concepts
(Reading level: Intermediate)English is a wonderful language for several reasons, one of which is, you can make up new words. “Chinglish” is one such made-up word. What is “Chinglish”?It refers to the garbled combination of Chinese and...
